Early Life and Education
Born in The London's Westminster Hospital as Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, Khan is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith. Her parents had a polyamorous relationship where they were married to different partners, but in 1978, they married to legitimize their children. She has two younger brothers, Zac Goldsmith and Ben Goldsmith, and five paternal and three maternal half-siblings, including Robin Birley and India Jane Birley.
Khan grew up at Ormeley Lodge and attended Old Vicarage preparatory school and Francis Holland School. From age 10 to 17, she was an accomplished equestrian in London. Khan enrolled at the University of Bristol in 1993 and majored in English, but dropped out when she got married in 1995. She eventually completed her Bachelor's Degree in March 2002 with 2:1 honours.
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